Wednesday, November 30, 2011

I am just so happy to report on a UFO Finished :) :) I got this out again, and actually stitched on it until it was done - a lot of the work to be done was the sky, which I found really tedious, so I've had to work on some other projects too. But it is ACTUALLY DONE! I don't know when I started this, but there is a picture of some progress in July 2009, so it's certainly been hanging around a long time! Click on the picture for a better view!

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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Hello! First, I wanna thak Vicki for the invitation, I think I really need an help with my stitching stuff.My name is Maria-João (MJ, please, it's easier for you). I'm a Portuguese teacher, I have a 5 years old dauhgter anda I love reading and stitching. In spite of, I kind of lost my mojo stitch and I was trying to find it again! I have a (not so) babyblog, also in stand by: http://maedarita.blogsopt.com

My UFOS:

1- Amy’s roses, from Dimensions (Jessie Wilcox's) - it’s going to be 2 years I received it from my DH for Xmas... Most of it was stitched in the first year. The little girl looks like our daughter… I love it!

2 – Little House Neighborhood, from Diane Williams (sal) (LHN); almost a year had passed after closing time; could you tell what’s to finish? Almost nothing! I’ll try to finish it and frame it to be my DH Xmas gift…

3 – Bath towel with bathing girl (from past February – it was a gift for a girl who used to work at my daughter’s school… This year, will be a Xmas gift for a little cousin… So long I begin it again…). Chart from Los Labores de Ana (Spanish review).

4 – From a freebee; I don’t know where the chart is… I’ll try a different kind of finish. (May 2009)

5 – Another sal: 4 seasons, from Bent Creek. Winter is missing… I should finish it and frame it to match with LHN… It’s the same aida color: Portuguese fabric, in caffe-latte color; I love it!

6 – The oldest of my Ufos’: Janlynn, In my garden (in a Burda magazine). I started it 6 years ago, when I found I was expecting a girl… It’s like this and I can’t find it any ware. I still love it. It’ s from a painter called Nancy Cole. The aida was cut in the edge and I don’t touch it since 2008… There’s a «partner» of this picture that I found in e-bay (you can see it down). After the smaller pieces and after Amy’s roses, it should be the next to finish. I love pictures of little girls!

Sunday, November 27, 2011

I got some stitching done on Coffee Angel the last couple of weeks. I've made her my car project so when I have time at dr's offices, etc, out she comes!

I also found another UFO. I actually thought I had put this on the original list, but just discovered that I didn't. This was in the boxes of stash I bought off a woman in DC. She had the entire picture done except for a few stitches here and there and ALL of the backstitching! I finished most of the odd stitching (the squirrel and the stars) and got the backstitching started. ﻿ It's going a little slow because I keep coming across stitches here and there that she missed putting in.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Okay, so I finally had a chance to sit down and go through all of my UFO's and WIP's and came up with this list. I used a random number generator to choose which projects I would work on. I picked seven, one for each day of the week. That way I won't get bored, hopefully! :) I set up a WIP page on my own blog for this list. I also added a page for "Charts in Waiting" which I own and would like to stitch someday.

My goal is to whittle this list down to 7 in 2012. Starting next Monday I'll post WIP pics of each piece in my rotation with a before and after. Ya'll wish me luck! I'm going to have to have smoking needles to meet my goal, but I'm going to give it my best shot.